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It's been a pretty good couple of months for star-gazing in the Rockford area. We just finished up with the Geminid Meteor Showers last week, now we move on to what's sometimes referred to as The Christmas Comet.

The Leonid Meteor Shower going on right now should offer up clear-sky meteor rates of about 10 to 15 shooting stars per hour, but has been known to put on a spectacular show of up to (and over) 1000 shooting stars per hour.

If it seems as though it was only a week or so back that Rockford was treated to not one, but two meteor showers going on at the same time, it's because it was only a week or so back.

I've shared quite a bit of information about what's happening in Rockford's skies over the last month, and we're not done yet. If you feel like getting up a bit early tomorrow morning, you'll get a look at a solar eclipse.

As I told you yesterday on this website, it's a pretty great week for sky-watching here in the Rockford area. You've got the International Space Station flying over multiple times, and tomorrow morning you've the Super Flower Blood Moon Eclipse.

It's been going on since last Friday, April 16th, but our best chance at getting a decent look at the Lyrid Meteor Showers in the Rockford area should be this Thursday in the early morning hours.

As we told you a couple of weeks back, the "Christmas Star," last seen about 800 years ago, is going to make a return to the skies on December 21st, which just happens to be the first day of winter.

Your best bet to see the sometimes colorful fireballs of the Geminid Meteor Shower will be somewhere away from the Rockford area's lights.

Unless the last things in the world you'd find interesting are the final full moon of the decade and a meteor shower.

The recommendations come from EnjoyIllinois.com, but you may have some spots around the Rockford area that you prefer.